Finalists for Canadian Trillium Book Award 2105: Margaret Atwood in Mix

30-May-2015

Established writers dominate the short list of English-language finalists for Canada's $20,000 Trillium Book Award announced on 27th May, 2015. Four categories were represented, including French-language finalists, English poetry and French children’s literature.

The six English language finalists are:
Margaret Atwood for her collection of short stories Stone Mattress (McClelland & Stewart)
Dionne Brand for Love Enough (Knopf Canada)
Kate Cayley for her collection of short stories How You Were Born (Pedlar Press)
James King for his novel Old Masters (Cormorant Books)
Thomas King for The Back of the Turtle, which also won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for English language fiction (HarperCollins Publishers)
Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo for Up Ghost River (Knopf Canada)

Winners of the main book awards in English and French receive $20,000 each, while their publishers receive $2,500 to help promote the titles. Each finalist receives $500.

Winners will be announced in Toronto on June 17. Before that, the public can hear the finalists read from their work on June 16 at the Toronto Reference Library.